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No - it wasn't even the first piece of land to be named by Captain Cook. Cook first named Point Hicks, which lies on the far southeastern corner of the Australian continent. Sections of Western Australia were the first to be named by Europeans. Dutch captain Willem de Vlamingh named the Swan River in 1697 because of the black swans he saw in abundance there. The Shark Bay region was named by explorer William Dampier in 1699.

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